Universal NightWatch

 
 
    This is one of the better books written.  In that we use a lot of ships from this book. The ships included are maneuverable with big weapons for cheap.  The emp weapons are not best used agaist terrain ships because of their half and no damage shots.  While the introduction of hammerhead missles is devestating considering they go to the eleventh hex and extend out to the fifteenth hex with a lucky roll. As mentioned before the ships are fast and manuverable, the only down fall is that many of the new ships have no armor to protect against terran weapons.  They have a gel that catches spores from the brood.

 
 
 
New ships
Praying Mantis: This ship is like three night hawks put together only with two gunners, high maneuverablity, ton of torpedos, and a rather large damage track.  The only draw back is that it has no armor. 
Rattler: The rattler is another good ship in that it has a to of torpedos, six splatter guns covering the front half of the ship.  The drawback to this ship is that it has no armor and an emp beam.  The good thing aout the emp beam is that it does a critical hit if you roll doubles. 
Javelin: This is the only ship that we think is crap and not worth buying. We don't know all the stats of it but we do know it sucks. 
Hornet: The Hornet is a rather interesting in that it has a copiloit.  It also has some heavy hitting weapons such as an ion ram, 15 mk. 10 torpedos.  This ship has the same draw backs as the rest of the UNW ships. 
Equalizer: The Equalizer is a fast, manueverable, and fairly heavily armed fighter.  It has a drive of 16 Defensive value of 15.  The Equalizer has one set of two splatter guns, 20 hammerhead missiles,  and a tachyon cannon that only affects the brood.  The Equalizer also has a copilot. 
Firebat: The Firebat is the smallest of the UNW ships and not is not really suited for combat with terrans.  It has a drive of 17, and a defensive value of 16.  I t comes with 10 hammerhead missles, tachyon ram and 10 mk torps. 
Falcon: The Falcon is a good warhound it only lacks big escort weapons otherwise it is good for using against fighter gunboat fleets.  It has a high drive of 12 for a warhoundas well as defensive value of 14. It has no torpedos.  It does have a TOC bonus of 5
Redone Ships
Fighters:

Lance Electra NW 
Night Hawk NW 
Salamander NW 
Teal Hawk NW 
Thunder Bird NW 		 Gunboats:

Beatfortress NW 
Epping NW 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Codys Comments:
    This book is my favorite in that it has some of the best ships.  Justin doesn't like the hammerhead missles because I will set out at the 11th hex and not having any penelaties when firing missles.  I  also like the Night Hawk NW, because it kept the sext splatterguns and added the Hammerheads while dropping the meld laser.  I also have won a tournament with four of these little beast.  Even though I came into the tournament late I still pulled off a win.  The final match put Justin and I against each other for the championship match.  Justin had several good fighters,  just one mistake let me beat him in the end.

 
 
 
 

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